On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:35:42 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > > - best filesystem for portage? something compressed or with small > > > > cluster size maybe. > > > > > > I think reiserfs with the notail option is recommended. > > > > The data I've seen indicates that ext2 is fastest, that's what I use. > > I thought the small files of the portage tree especially profit from the > notail option in reiserfs? Did you change the block size?
You mean the other way around, right? reiser defaults to tail-packing, which can cause problems with GRUB and LILO, which is why notail is an option which turns off tail-packing for those crazy enough to use reiser on /boot. If you use notail on the portage tree, you get rid of that advantage, then Neil is absolutely correct: there's not too much point in journaling the portage tree, and if you actively make reiser not-competitive on the storage-space direction, the only metric left to compare is speed, and ext2 is faster. Incidentally, if you are willing to sacrifice speed for space, then a sparsefile for /usr/portage may also be an option. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton